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The exec function doesn seem to work under Perl for ISAPI or PerlScript. Why not?

April 26, 2017Exec function ISAPI Perl perlscript

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The exec function doesn seem to work under Perl for ISAPI or PerlScript. Why not?

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Perl for ISAPI and PerlScript share a process space with the web server and any number of other extensions. As a result, the exec() function is unimplemented, because it would cause the web server to terminate (the exec() function executes a system command and never returns).